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Umfang: 1 online resource (244 p.)

Ausgabe: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-280-22156-9 , 9786610221561 , 0-309-58185-0 , 0-585-14243-2

Anmerkung: Includes index. , ""Technology and Employment""; ""Copyright""; ""Sponsors""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""TECHNOLOGY AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC WELFARE""; ""CENTRAL FINDINGS""; ""Employment and Wage Impacts of Technological Change in an Open Economy""; ""Technology and the Characteristics of Tomorrow's Jobs""; ""Technology and Work Force Adjustment""; ""POLICY OPTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Recommendations for the Public Sector""; ""Policies for Worker Adjustment""; ""Training for Labor Market Entrants""; ""Equal Employment Opportunity"" , ""Science and Technology Policy to Support the Adoption of New Technologies"" ""The Adequacy of the Data""; ""Health and Safety Impacts of Technological Change""; ""Recommendations for the Private Sector""; ""Labor-Management Collaboration in Technology Adoption""; ""Elements of ""Best-Practice"" Strategies for Technology Adoption""; ""Protection from the Costs of Displacement""; ""Education for Managers""; ""1 Introduction ""; ""TECHNOLOGY AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC WELFARE""; ""WHOSE JOBS ARE AFFECTED BY TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE?""; ""TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND EMPLOYMENT IN AN ""OPEN"" ECONOMY"" , ""ORGANIZATION OF THE REPORT"" ""2 The Sources and Rate of Technological Change in the U.S. Economy ""; ""DEFINING TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE""; ""Invention, Innovation, and Diffusion""; ""Influences on Invention, Innovation, and Diffusion""; ""The Interaction of Technological and Organizational Change""; ""Measuring Technological Change""; ""SOURCES OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE""; ""Industrially Funded Research and Development in the United States""; ""Federally Funded Research and Development""; ""Foreign Research and Development""; ""THE DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY"" , ""Factors Affecting the Diffusion of Technology"" ""Obstacles to the Diffusion of Technology""; ""KEY TECHNOLOGY ""CLUSTERS""""; ""Information Technologies""; ""Computer-Aided Manufacturing Technologies""; ""Advanced Materials""; ""Biotechnology""; ""SUMMARY""; ""3 Labor Supply and Demand Within the U.S. Economy ""; ""THE U.S. ECONOMY: CHANGES IN STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE SINCE THE 1960's""; ""TRENDS IN U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT""; ""Aggregate Unemployment""; ""Displacement""; ""TRENDS IN LABOR SUPPLY""; ""Long-Term Growth""; ""Labor Force Growth, 1947-1986""; ""Projected Growth, 1984-1995"" , ""Educational Attainment of the U.S. Labor Force, 1959-1990"" ""Comparing the Educational Attainment of U.S. Labor Market Entrants with Those of Other Nations""; ""LABOR DEMAND""; ""Growth in Labor Productivity and Output""; ""Changes in the Sectoral Composition of Output and Employment""; ""INTERNATIONAL TRADE, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, AND U.S. EMPLOYMENT""; ""International Trade and Employment""; ""Technological Change and U.S. Exports""; ""The Competitiveness of U.S. Industry""; ""Unit Labor Costs in U.S. and Foreign Manufacturing, 1950-1985""; ""SUMMARY"" , ""4 Studies of the Impact of Technological Change on Employment, Skills, and Earnings: A Critical Review "" , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 0-309-03744-1

Sprache: Englisch